Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 379
r, though not of the largest size,in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam-bridge, Massachusetts. Surpassing even the great Japanese crab instrength, however, is the famous palm, or robbercrab, of the Indian Ocean, a land hermit thatexceeds two feet in length. In the Spice Isl-ands they are… … A ROBBER-CRAB LIFTS A GOAT FROM THE GROUND. the cocoa-nut groves, living in holes beneath thetrees and subsisting upon the fruit, tearing thehusks from the nuts with its powerful claws andconveying it to its nest for use as a lining, or bed. i885.; SPIDERS OF THE SEA. «43 The nests are often…
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